Climate Change Puts Tribal Way of Life at Risk
Native Americans are disproportionately affected by climate change.
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The 4,000-member indigenous group is experiencing a winter season that now ends two months earlier than usual.
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Why has nothing been done about climate change? Back in '81 our President understood all too well that climate change was causing the winters to end prematurely. Years ago the elders told our President in no uncertain terms that the snows in the mountains were drastically effected by climate change. Our President also knew years ago of flooding and the devastating effect climate change was reaping on the agriculture in America, yet he did nothing!
Below you will find in the President's own words his admission that climate change was effecting our very lives in the United States of America:
Snows are less frequent and less deep. They do not often lie, below the mountains, more than one, two, or three days, and very rarely a week. They are remembered to have been formerly frequent, deep, and of long continuance. The elderly inform me the earth used to be covered with snow about three months in every year. The rivers, which then seldom failed to freeze over in the course of the winter, scarcely ever do so now. This change has produced an unfortunate fluctuation between heat and cold, in the spring of the year, which is very fatal to fruits. From the year 1741 to 1769, an interval of twenty-eight years, there was no instance of fruit killed by the frost in the neighbourhood of Monticello. An intense cold, produced by constant snows, kept the buds locked up till the sun could obtain, in the spring of the year, so fixed an ascendency as to dissolve those snows, and protect the buds, during their developement, from every danger of returning cold. The accumulated snows of the winter remaining to be dissolved all together in the spring, produced those overflowings of our rivers, so frequent then, and so rare now.
Thomas Jefferson - 1781
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JEFFERSON/intro.html
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